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B. GURTIN.

LANTERN.

Patented Jan. 9, 1883.

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WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID CURTIN, OF JAMESTOI'VN, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,397, dated January9, 1883.

Application filed June 29, 1882. (X0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DAVID UURTIN, ofJainestown, in the county of Stutsmanand Territory of Dakota, have invented a new and useful Improvement inLanterns, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to tubular lanterns; and it consists of aconnection of the guard for the globe, whereby the said guard may be asreadily detached as now for the removal of the globe, but will remainconnected, so that the loss of the guards. now so common, will beprevented, as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lantern with the guardattached'according to my invention. Fig.2 is a top view of the guard,and Fig.3 is aplan view of the ring which I prefer to employ forattaching the guard.

The guard commonly used with tubularlanterns consists of a couple ofrings, a 1), connected to concave bars 0 in suitable form andarrangement to drop down on the tubes (1 from the top and rest in aboutthe position shown in Fig. 1 for the protection of the globe c, saidguard being so as to be shifted upward readily whenever it may benecessary to remove the globe, and being detachable thereby, so thatsuch guards are frequently lost. I therefore propose to connect theseguards to the lantern by a riug,f, fitted around one of the tubes, as

shown, and connected with one of the bars 0 by an eye-clip, g, turned onit below the eye, in which the ring I) is secured to it. For the purposeof enabling the guard to swingoff from the top and over to one side ofthe lantern, as shown in the dotted lines, Fig.1, I prefer to make theeye-clip 9 straight across the end of the bar to form a hinge-joint bythe straight parts h of the ring, and I make the ring with the jointbetween the ends on said straight part. to open thereat for springingthe ring into the eye-clip, and also so that the eye-clip will form aconnection, or at least cover the opening between them.

The ring maybe solid and soldered into'the eye-clip g at the factory,but I prefer the open ring, as the old style of packing at the factorycan be used and the retailer can attach the guards.

The guard may be removed, the same as before, for the removal of theglobe by sliding it and its connecting-ring up to the top of the tubes,and, if desired, may then be let drop down to the tube on which the ringis fastened, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The guard to b c of a tubular lantern, connected toone of the tubes d by a ring, f,"substantially as described.

DAVID OURTIN.

Witnesses DE WITT C. FLINT, EDsoN D. STRONG.

